Bottled water...is it really better than tap water??

[Spellbound]

I've been buying a lot of bottled water lately, for myself and for my cats, when it struck me to look at the actual label to see fluoride listed (Nestle Pure Spring). I thought that was rather odd, as it was my understanding that bottled water was better than tap water in that it should not contain fluoride. Is there any benefit to buying bottled water if actually does contain fluoride?? Is all bottled water created equal?? Water is water, no??

Dave - Toronto

[greybeard]

My thought is that you would be better buying and installing a quality water filter to the tap.
It would eventually work out cheaper than buying bottled water which is relatively dead by the time you get it.

Chris

[PurpleLama]

The best part about bottled water, you can't even taste the dissolved plastics in it!

After getting off the bottled water (we use a Berkey at my house) bottled water does taste like plastic, and such is at least as bad for you as any amount of fluoride or any other chemical contaminants. I can't even drink the (drip pot) coffee at work anymore for the plastic taste. We try to keep it all glass and stainless steel.

[WhiteLove]

This is a duplication of a post I made in a different thread.

About a year ago I was suddenly noticing unexpected overall health improvements. This caught my interest because I had not actively done anything special I thought, in fact I thought I was living not that healthy and should have been at a much worse overall health condition. So what had happened?

After having ruled out a number of reasons I finally traced this back to the fact that I had started drinking Evian bottled water. This water is so clean that even if you would live totally off the grid and live as naturally as possible out in the woods, you will drink less clean, less healthy water. In the French Alps, rain and melting snow filters through glacial sand and clay for more than 15 years and surges upward, emerging from the Cachat Spring in the town of Evian-Les-Bains in France before reaching Evian's aquifer. The company taps the aquifer and funnels the water directly into bottles without touching or altering it in anyway. It has an excellent pH at 7.9 and is totally naturally purified without the use of chemicals. It also contains minerals, including sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonates, and more.

15 years of natural water purification is good for you...

[Creedence]

Evian is naive backwards.

[Lifebringer]

They've found out that awakened people don't drink their water without distilling it first. Lots and lots of people are waking up to that fact since Flint. Crystal Spring Water is what the NOI are selling they have a very large spring of water and bottle it to help pay for the land and farms that help feed our people on the streets and print their newspapers the Final Call. There was a 3 year plan back in the 90's where anyone can contribute to make a financial strike against not owning land or being able to build schools with good teachers. To teach what others won't teach in school. True history from a biblical and historical facts.
WE have nothing since reconstruction and NOI is the only African American success thus far, where all contribute to the many to ease the pain of poverty. They grow organic and "all natural products" for decades. ONe thing I can say for Farrakhan is he is a visionary and has been awake and aware since early 80's. Like Bill leading here, Farrakhan leads our people who want to live in peace, but are NOT pushovers. NOI accepts all the Christians because they use both books for the Hebrew populations of slavery here in America. Before it was death to read about us in the bible, NOT anymore. WE live it breathe it, love it and welcome it. Truth is the true spring of life, but the body must be cleansed and pure earth water is the best.

[Lifebringer]

Our waters have been poisoned since the beginning of the industrial age over hundred years ago. Many have become sick and die, not knowing the toxicity of the metals and chemicals that caused cancer. But this generation that must soon take the lead/reigns, stay on top of everything. The nerds I mean and most of them are so good of heart, and no ill intent, just the "need" to bring the solution to solve the world's, man's problems. The old codgers of greed over life, are standing in the way.

[delfine]

Bottled water (plastic bottles) contains BPA which is a known carcinogen. + it´s expensive. So I´ll recommend getting a water distiller. Water, as you probably know, has memory, and a way to delete this memory is by distillation. The memory of tap-water is not something you´d want to retain. After distillation, run it through a vortexer, which gives life and energy to the water:
https://www.panosun.org/products.php?cat=15

[NeedleThreader]

Poland Springs is one of the last good ones.

[Mike Gorman]

Bottled water is largely a scam - it is in fact tap water which has been passed through a reverse osmosis filter-which alas does not remove fluoride. Some brands are genuine spring water, but these often contain a lot of sodium, potassium and other minerals which could be harmful to folks on diets for their health-that Italian one from the Alps is nice. Water, it seems it is actually very hard to get just plain, 100% H20 without additives these days- which is my biggest beef concerning fluoride, the basic right to have pure drinking water!

[RunningDeer]

If money is tight a good alternative is the Sport Berkey Water Bottle. Besides money, the sports bottle saves shopping time and lugging the bottles home.

I also use the Berkey system with the additional fluoride filters. To prepare the filters, I purchased the primer.

Berkey Fluoride Water Filter effectively reduces the following water contaminants
• Fluoride
• Pre-oxidized Arsenic III and Arsenic V
• MTBE
• Other heavy metal ions

The Black Berkey Filter Elements have been tested and confirmed to remove or greatly reduce the contaminants:

Viruses:  99.999% reduction
 MS2 - Fr Coliphage
*Exceeds purification standards
 
Pathogenic Bacteria, Parasites, and Cysts:  Removed to non-detectable levels - 100% reduction E. coli, Klebsiella terrigena, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Giardia, Cryptosporidium
*Exceeds purification standards
 
Trihalomethanes:   Removed to below detectable limits - 99.99999% reduction
Bromodichloromethane, Bromofore, Chloroform, Dibromochloromethane 
 
Inorganic Minerals:  Removed to non-detectable levels - 99.9999999% reduction
Chlorine
 
Heavy Metals:  Greater than 95% reduction
Lead, Mercury, Aluminum, Cadmium, Chromium, Copper
 
Volatile Organic Compounds:  Removed to below detectable limits - 99.9999999% reduction

 Alachlor, Atrazine, Benzene, Carbofuran, Carbon Tetrachloride, Chlorine, Chlorobenzene, Chloroform, 2 4-D, DBCP, p-Dichlorobenzene, o-Dichlorobenzene, 1 1-Dichloroethane 1 2-Dichlorpethane, 1 1-Dichloroethylene, Cis-1 2-Dichloroethyiene Trans-1 2-Dichloroethylene, 1 2-Dichloropropane Cis-l 3-Dichloropropylene, Dinoseb, Endrin, Ethylbenzene Ethylene Dibromide (EDB), Heptachlor, Heptachlor Epoxide Hexachlorobutodlene, Hexachloro-, Cyclopentadlene, Lindane Methoxychlor, MTBE, Pentachlorophenol, Simazine, Styrene 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane, Tetrachloroethylene, Toluene 2,4,5-TP (Silvex), 1 2 4-trichlorobenzene, 1 1 1-trichloroethane 1 1 2-trichloroethane, Trichloroethylene, o-Xylene, m-Xylene

[6pounder]

in israel there arent much bottled watter companies so i just look for those that do not contain floride in them. some does and some doesnt, just look on the label.

[Michi]

Fortunately over here in Germany you still can can swallow water when taking a shower without having to go to a hospital.
Certainly - the water isn't really completely clean either.
I am using myself em-pipes to handle the tap water and using a stainless steel pendulum (rotating clock-wise) to confirm whether or not the water has it's proper information.
A friend of mine uses additionally moringa seeds to clean up the water.
I even tested with that with bottled water from the local store and local water bottling company and found the water to be good.

[uzn]

Take it from the Roman Empire, they only drank Spring Water via their Aqueducts. They had 3 seperate Spring Water Systems going in to Rome. Whatever you drink check it if it has Chlor(id) od Flour(id) in it. If, don´t drink it !!! The Nazi´s figured out that Flour lowers the will and Chor makes sick. Go figure. If you force water out of the ground you have to do something to it because it is not ready and will turn bad really fast, usually they but in Carbon Oxyd and Chlor to make it last a bit longer. But it´s crappy water.
If you want to know more check Peter Ferreira, he devoted his whole life to water and salt and explains it wonderfully.
Here one lecture of him in german:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wK4bUcqQ62U

The Romans had a Minister just for their Waterquality, one was named Fontanius after which Fountains are named.
Springwater rules, Mineral Water is close to toilet water

And if you buy Spring Water buy it in Glassbottles and not Plastic, Plastic releases a whole bunch of Hormones in any fluid inside.

[pyrangello]

Its bad enough with the BPA's in the plastic but when the bottle is set in the sunlight it accelerates the decomposition of the plastic releasing more BPA, s in the liquid. I like pelligrino carbonated water and of course well water from a good well.

[Justplain]

Hi Spellbound, if your bottled water has fluoride it means its just tapwater (filtered or otherwise), cuz fluoridation doesnt happen to spring water.

We just installed a countertop metropure2 waterfilter system that filters fluoride, chlorine, lead,voc, etc. The water tastes noticeably better. This unit cost $110 cdn from gtawater (link below). The filters are good for a year.

Distillers (big horn brand) are available on amazon.ca starting at $130 cdn + tax. We got one but have yet to set it up.

Good luck!

http://www.gtawater.com/?gclid=COjj7...FYEkhgodc6wHfg

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by Justplain (here)
Hi Spellbound, if your bottled water has fluoride it means its just tapwater (filtered or otherwise), cuz fluoridation doesnt happen to spring water.
...

This isn't true. Fluoride is also a mineral that occurs naturally on earth and is quite often (but not always) found in artesian spring water in small amounts. Mind you this form of fluoride is not the same as what is added to drinking water, that stuff is actually industrial waste.

[Clear Light]

Posted by greybeard (here)
My thought is that you would be better buying and installing a quality water filter to the tap.
It would eventually work out cheaper than buying bottled water which is relatively dead by the time you get it.

Chris

Oh, yeah, I've been using Brita filters for years now

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Clear Light (here)
Oh, yeah, I've been using Brita filters for years now

I purchased a bunch of Brita filters back when it was suggested to have preparation for food, water, medicines and such. Now I use the Berkey filter system. I pour the contents from the Brita into the Berkey. Brita is limited in what it filters out, but it is certainly much better than water from the tap. I have an artisan well and still feel it's important to filter the water for drinking and cooking.

[greybeard]

I use Aquasana which fits directly to the cold water supply--the filters last at least 6 month.

The water here from the tap is fluoride free and may not need a filter.
Good Scottish Highland water.

Chris